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Also, games back in the days, not being seen as part of the same serious IT industry, a lot of very creative techniques were written ad-hoc without leaking out to the world because they were 'one shot' solutions for the problem at hand.

I think it was Phil Trefford that had articles about embedded DSLs being used quite often in the 80s, to avoid bare metal complexities.




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